It's hard to believe, but Taj Mahal has been around long enough to have a listing — squeezed between Mad River and Mamas and the Papas — in Lillian Roxon's seminal 1969 Rock Encyclopedia. Harder to believe that, every year, his name never comes up among nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (surely an institution that nominates, as it has this year, Chic, Linda Ronstadt and LL Cool J can find some love for a musical treasure like Taj!).

Cleveland will spend $500,000 toward the cost of hosting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 30th annual induction ceremony on April 18.
The Northeast Ohio Media Group (http://bit.ly/1BQTYHN ) reports the subsidy was approved by Cleveland City Council on...

Actor Channing Tatum, fresh on the heels of his starring role in "Foxcatcher," and his wife, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, have pinned down a house in Beverly Hills for $6 million.
The Cape Cod-inspired home, built in 1950, is clad in dark shingles and accented...

Sammy Hagar will take a different approach to concerts when he brings his new band The Circle to the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center in April.
The Red Rocker teamed up with Michael Anthony, the bassist who has played with him for the past 30 years...

In the annals of rock and roll, there have been a lot of ugly breakups. It's part of the game.
But none have ever been uglier than the breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival, that great Bay Area band that gave us "Proud Mary," "Fortunate Son," and some of the greatest songs ever produced by an American rock band.
These four guys - John and Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford - were childhoods friends and began playing music together in middle school. The breakup involved egos and money...

Occasionally, for reasons of fate or coincidence, sounds from the past converge in the present at key moments.
Consider the Staple Singers, whose gospel recordings starting in the early 1960s carried them through the next four decades and included secular pop hits including "I'll Take You There" and "Let's Do It Again."
Lauded by musical aesthetes but less known among the public, the family quartet and its founder-patriarch, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, have recently seen new light shined on them that...

How good were the songs of Creedence Clearwater Revival, the band that from 1968-72 had a mind-boggling 15 Top 10 hits and got the band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I 1993?
So good that, nearly 50 years later, the songs are still being honored. In 2014, the Grammy Awards inducted the group’s 1970 album “Cosmo’s Factory” into its Hall of Fame, and the song “Fortunate Son” was added to the U.S. Library of Congress.
And the legacy group Creedence...

The Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band will perform as part of ArtsQuest's RiverJazz festival, completing the lineup for the fifth annual event
Glenn Miller Orchestra will play 7:30 p.m. May 2. Tickets are $32-$39.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band will play 8 p.m. May 15. Tickets are $35-$45.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. March 3 to ArtsQuest Members and 10 a.m. March 6 to the public at www.steelstacks.org and 610-332-3378.
Previously announced headliners are for the festival are...

The “Hitler Gets Angry” scene from the 2004 World War II film “Downfall” has been parodied so extensively on YouTube you’d think there was nothing left for him to get upset over.
Of course not.
A new version posted this week (language advisory), in which the German dictator discovers Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the greatest albums of all time, adds yet another dimension to the iconic scene that’s been used to vent wrath over President Obama’s...

Johnny Rivers, the 1960s singer who had such hits as "Secret Agent Man," "Poor Side of Town," "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" and "Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin'),"will play Easton’s State Theatre in November, according to his website.
Rivers will perform Nov. 13, according to his website.
The theater confirmed the performance, saying the show will be part of the State’s 2015-16 series, to be announced at the end of June. Tickets to that show will go on sale in August.
Rivers, 72, has...